Oratopygous

Yuna's one is like, "HOLY SHIT THE CENTAURS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS! I never thought I'd be so excited to say that. 😂 This is such a huge achievement and I couldn't be more proud of you! This means I'm finally going to have to cave and by an Ottawa jersey. Don't tell David I told you, but he's still drying his eyes about it. Bubbly when you and Shane come over on Saturday for SURE, okay? Love you lots. SO proud."

And David's is like, "You did it, Cap! I know how hard you worked for this and it's paid off. We'll be cheering you on for every game. I am so unbelievably proud of you, kiddo. Love you lots - can't wait to see you and Shane on Saturday."

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

Shane + Ilya (1996)

does this mean cliff marleau is mercutio

inspo via @mybloodstream-caffeine , thanks @gimmiekiss1221 for sending it my way, this was so fun!

"The sex tells the story, so it never felt gratuitous to me. The sex is character development. The sex is what is moving this relationship forward, and watching it change over time."

my cat, sleeping peacefully on the floor next to me:

In southeast Louisiana, all the canals they dug created saltwater intrusion, which, wouldn’t be an issue if we hadn’t intervened in other ways.

BUT, since we diverted part of the water of the Mississippi River to protect New Orleans, all of the sediment isn’t reaching the delta to restore what salt water intrusion is eroding.

We disrupted natures ability to heal itself in the name of commerce.

To this day, we lose 2 football fields per year to saltwater intrusion. Our delta was our strongest protection against hurricanes, since they created a land barrier to starve storms of energy before they reached more densely populated areas.

(And since we’ve made the climate worse with constant fossil fuel consumption those storms are only getting stronger but that’s a story for another post)

So yeah. Canals kind of doomed New Orleans and most of southeast Louisiana. Grand isle is a shadow of what it once was and a bunch of other smaller communities don’t even exist anymore.

So uh. Yeah. I don’t care if canals are the most efficient foolproof way of transporting cargo. They’ve fucked up the wetlands of my home in a way we can never truly recover from. Like they’re TRYING but the state government dumps all the coastal wetland money into oil subsidies instead of restoring what we’ve lost.

Shane had always been consistently expressive in that way which I find fascinating because sex is something he doesn’t often receive and it’s a safe space for him,

Whereas Ilya’s relationship to sex is as his sole means of human connection and there’s a certain vulnerability that shines through that he tries his best to tamp down. I think that’s why he finds Shane so dangerous to be around, because he can’t help but let those walls crumble in his presence, in a way that he’s never done before.

Going from his first sexual experience with Shane being extremely reserved and controlled, to when they’re making love in the cottage and he looks like a man in rapture, completely unable to hide.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.